Xbox is recovering after the second of two outages this weekend

Xbox users hoping to enjoy some solid playtime over the weekend were stymied on Saturday, following an outage that lasted about nine hours. Microsoft issued a tweet around 4pm ET on Saturday, acknowledging that some users were unable to purchase and launch games or join Cloud Gaming sessions. The service Downdetector also logged a spike in error reports around that time. We're aware that some users are unable to purchase & launch games or start Cloud Gaming sessions. Our teams are investigating....